Weyerhaeuser curtails production at N.C. plant; Machine shutdown could result in loss of 200 jobs.(News)
Waste News, December, 2005
Byline: Jim Johnson About 200 Weyerhaeuser Co. employees stand to lose their jobs in Plymouth, N.C., as the company wants to permanently shut down a recycled paperboard machine. The linerboard machine, with an annual capacity of 350,000 tons per year, costs too much to operate in a difficult market, the company said.
Weyerhaeuser has indefinitely curtailed production on the 48-year-old machine, and the company's board will meet in December to review a management recommendation to shut the line down for good. "We have determined that the Plymouth machine no longer is economically sustainable,'' said Steven Rogel, the company's chairman, president and CEO. "Although Plymouth employees have worked diligently to make the machine competitive,...
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